Best New Product and CIO/CTO of the year recognition goes to clients Candid Hospitality and Popeyes UK at this year’s RMI Awards
04 February 2026 - The flagship of excellence for operators and agencies across Europe, the Restaurant Marketer & Innovator (RMI) Awards exist to recognise and reward the growing importance of marketing, innovation and strategy professions within the restaurant and food service sector.
Taking place on 21st January 2026 following the RMI’s European Summit, Deazy clients Candid Hospitality and Popeyes UK each walked away with awards this year and we couldn’t be more pleased to celebrate (and have played a part in) their success.
Huge congratulations go to Popeyes UK’s CTO, David Carey for his recognition as ‘CTO Of The Year’, and to the business as a whole for their additional award, ‘Best Use of AI’.
Equal congratulations are extended to the Candid Hospitality team for their impressive five nominations and win in the category of ‘Best New Product Development’ for their dating app for hospitality careers.
Deazy additionally celebrates being recently named Popeyes UK’s supplier of the year, receiving the award just last week off the back of a significant project to revolutionise the in-store experience with newly designed and developed kiosk software.
Both Popeyes UK and Candid Hospitality are changing the game when it comes to technology use in the food and beverage landscape, placing technology and innovation at the very core of their propositions to serve and delight customers for mightily impressive results.
Working with both organisations to accelerate their digital roadmaps, Deazy connects them with the very best global development talent and AI engineering expertise, as well as supporting them with expert product and delivery leadership here in the UK.
Said Andy Peddar, Deazy CEO, “We are outstandingly pleased to see David Carey, Popeyes UK and Candid Hospitality win awards this year, a real recognition of their commitment to customer- and results-focused technology innovation. And of course it’s recognition too for the Deazy teams that themselves have been committed to the success of these projects, working alongside the client to deliver this award-winning work.”
“Looking ahead, we couldn’t be more committed to the future of both organisations and are excited to support their continued evolution with whatever comes next.”
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